Friday, 25 November 2016

Found, Lost, Likely and Confession

1. Introduction

Last time we wrote we said we were stepping aside to watch how things would evolve in the Ben Needham case.

That we thought best that our silence would be the best option to avoid influencing in any way that particular outcome – and before the reader sends us any comments, we are already on our way to church to seek penitence for such a presumption of self-importance.

We continue to think the same way.

However, from time to time, a spectator must make a sound under the penalty that his presence may be forgotten by the artists on stage.

They may forget that a silent audience is not an absent one. Just an attentive one.

So like the barely heard but noticed cough by a spectator in the middle of a silent crowd inside a theatre, we have decided to show readers a few fascinating things related with the stay of the South Yorkshire police in Kos last month.

2. Let’s find a 3 inch toy

The most amazing thing about this is that South Yorkshire police ended up finding the toy!

What a fluke! Compared to this, finding a needle in a haystack or a specific blade of grass in a meadow in the future will be a piece of cake!

We are really looking forward to the next tutorial video from South Yorkshire police: how to knit sweaters for hamsters using only the elbows.

3. Let’s lose a digger

At this point in time, it’s not up for debate that Dino Barkas and his digger are in the centre of what may have happened to Ben.

If he did it then because he did it, if he didn’t do it (as we think he didn’t) then because the media are pointing their fingers in his direction.

As we have repeatedly pointed out, South Yorkshire police hasn’t said that it was Mr Barkas who accidentally killed Ben with his digger.

South Yorkshire police hasn’t denied this either so until they come forward with an official statement on the issue, the public has been led by the media to believe that Ben’s death was the result of that.

But the digger has turned out to be a very interesting object on its own.

As a subtitle this appeared: “Detectives have said tot “most likely” died in building site accident”.

And in its body, this: “Last month detectives announced that Ben “most likely” died as a result of a building site accident at a farmhouse close to the village of Iraklis where his family had been staying”.

Very interesting paragraph: “Last month detectives announced that Ben “most likely” died as a result of a building site accident at a farmhouse close to the village of Iraklis where his family had been staying.”

We don’t remember SYP having announced “most likely” (what was indeed said is quoted in article) when referring to Ben’s death last month, so as it's not a quote one can only deduce that quotation marks are used for emphasis.

So, apparently, the certainty it was digger is no longer a certainty.

That, appears to be one of 2 things:

One, SYP are backtracking and things will return to how they were before they made the statement in which was said in very clear terms there was a “professional belief that Ben Needham died as a result of an accident near to the farmhouse in Iraklis where he was last seen playing”.

Two, the blame will shift from digger driver to someone else who happened to be nearby at the time. Who it will be will be anybody’s guess. Maybe some sunglasses stand just outside the farmhouse, similar to the one Gerry McCann bought his sunglasses from in Luz, that may have fallen on the poor boy, and which now some witness will say after all these years that it was there although no one else noticed it.

In this possibility, as we said, we don’t know who will be blamed, only know it has to be someone who was very near to the events in question.

In case of the other possibility, the backtracking, all SYP has to do is to give a reasonable explanation as to why toy car travelled on its own
that distance and dug itself up.”

5. Confession

In that same article, Culliford and Corke also wrote that “The breakthrough came after a now deceased digger operator Konstantinos Barkas allegedly confessed that he had mistakenly killed the British boy then hidden his body in building waste.”

This seems to corroborate what Kerry Needham has written on page 291 of her book “Ben”, published in 2013:

“What I didn’t know was it was about to get worse. Just as I heard the presenters wrapping up their previous piece, I was handed out a copy of that morning’s Daily Mirror and told, ‘This is what Aled will be asking you about.’

The front-page headline was printed two inches high, but I could not take it in. Slowly the fog cleared and the words, ‘Is Lost Ben Buried Under Rubble?’ screamed out. I needed to sit down - and not on a sofa in front of millions.

The story claimed that Dino Barkas had decided to announce now, twenty-one years later, that Ben had almost certainly been killed by accident during the building works at Iraklis. The body, the JCB driver said, was buried under rocks he himself had dumped that day.

“The Mirror
tracked down JCB driver Konstantinos Barkas, who confirmed he was
excavating earth for a new property to be built 50 yards away.

He
was at work on the site during the crucial first three hours after the
little boy from Sheffield went missing while on holiday with his
parents, Kerry Needham and her then boyfriend Simon Ward.

Speaking for the first time, Mr Barkas, 61, also revealed he has given a statement to police.

“Yes, I was the man with the JCB that day,” Mr Barkas said.

“Loads
of earth were being taken to clear the ground for the new house down
the road. Cutting that much ground from the hill was a big job.

“I think people were misled in thinking the child was abducted.

"Could there have been an accident? I don’t think so but no one really knows what happened.

"The little boy was two years old and the thorns in that field were as high as my waist.

“I
remember I was still there when Kerry’s brother Stephen, Ben’s uncle,
came back late in the afternoon and told me the boy was missing. I will
never forget that.”

The sensational development raises serious
questions about whether blue-eyed Ben could have died in such appalling
circumstances.”

Unless something else was said by Mr Barkas about the subject during this interview or elsewhere, we fail to see any sort of a confession on his part. He asks a question and provides an answer in the form of his opinion: “Could there have been an accident? I don’t think so but no one really knows what happened.”.

Also interesting to note is that when he says “I think people were misled in thinking the child was abducted” Mr Barkas clearly contradicts the apparent assessment made by the Greek police from his statement back in 1991 that Ben may have been taken by two men and a woman who were inside a car, as Kerry refers on page 140 of her book:

“An English speaking officer told us Barkas had reported seeing a white
car parked along the lane on the day Ben had disappeared. He couldn't
identify the passengers, but could tell there were two men in the front
and a woman in the back.'They took your baby'”

To be noted that the mound in the pictures shown in both the Mirror’s front-page in its paper edition and in their online one (above) is inside the property and not 50 yards from it and very near to the farmhouse and to the entrance through which Ben is said to have exited:

“The son of Kos digger driver Konstantinos ‘Dinos’ Barkas has told of his anger that his father has been branded the killer of missing toddler Ben Needham without ‘a shred of evidence’.And he has warned heartbroken mother Kerry Needham to ‘choose her words carefully’ after she condemned his father to ‘burn in hell’ for allegedly covering up her son’s death.

Valantis Barkas says his family has worked with investigators for a quarter of a century to try to solve the mystery of 21-month-old Ben’s disappearance.

But now he can barely hold back his anger as his ‘beautiful’ father’s name is ‘dragged through the mud’ for killing little Ben and taking the secret of his death to his grave.

He said: ‘Kerry should be ashamed of herself. We are very upset by the things she has said about my father Dinos – such as that he should burn in hell.'

Speaking exclusively to MailOnline following the completion of South Yorkshire Police’s ‘Operation Ben’ Valantis Barkas said: ‘It’s been 25 years and they have found nothing at all – not a shred of evidence to support these wild allegations against my father.

‘My father has been accused of being a child killer and his picture has been published everywhere without a trace of evidence.

‘I have remained calm throughout all of this. We have nothing to hide. We have tried to help [the Operation Ben police investigation].

‘It is too easy to blame the dead. My father is dead and his name has been dragged through the mud. He was a beautiful man. He was well respected.

‘There was no better man than my father Dinos, God always wants good people with him.’

Dinos died of cancer last year. A witness came forward in May and told British detectives Dinos had killed little Ben in a terrible accident.”

So, did Dino Barkas confess to have killed Ben back before the searches of 2012 or didn’t he?

It would be very important for South Yorkshire police to clarify this, officially.

6. Conclusion

We continue to be very interested spectators, waiting here and in silence for official news from the South Yorkshire police.

I think that when the truth emerges in both cases then there'll be some remarkable similarities. I also think that the outcome of both is somewhat intertwined and will possibly arrive at around the same time. They both appear to be about timing now. Just when is the right time that they may be struggling with?

What is clear is that SYP have ruled out an abduction by producing the blade of grass in a meadow or the needle in a hay stack or in this case a toy car,OG just can't no matter how they try to rule in an abduction because the blade of grass in a meadow whether by accident or by design is just not there.Rock and a hard place.

Quite embarrassing for both the SYP and the Operation Grange, as they now must feel compelled to break the silence, but still having nothing substantial whatsoever to pass on to the “audience”. I expect nothing but misleading rhetoric from them, in order to distract attention from their complete failures.

In an unheard of legal move, it has decided to want to send process for trial in a foreign nation.

The Brazilian justice system has gathered enough evidence against a foreign citizen for him to stand a trial. The crime, a murder, has happened 7 years ago and that citizen fled from Brazil the day after the crime was committed.

Fearing that this crime may go untried and thus the criminal unpunished if found guilty, the Brazilian justice wants to send the process to that citizen’s country so that he can be judged there by his national justice system.

The citizen in question is Portuguese, Duarte Lima and the country to which the process is to be sent to, is Portugal.

The Brazilian justice system has this decision because it realised that Portugal cannot legally extradite one of its citizen there for judgement.

We don’t know what the decision from the Portuguese justice system will be on this subject. As far as we could gather, this is still to be decided in Brazil as Duarte Lima has appealed there, this decision.

If the Brazilian justice system upholds this decision it will be curious what the decision from the Portuguese justice system will be.

This raises very interesting questions about legal sovereignties as it seems a nation's justice system is willing to let go of some of it so it won’t see a crime go without judgement.

I met up with my mum and her two friends last Friday two late 70's mum 81All 3 believe the digger driver killed Ben accidentally and all 3 believed Dino confessed on his death bed The power of media and gullible idiots are still very much with us unfortunately.My mum believed Ben was dead all those years ago but believes Madeleine's alive fgs I'll leave that with you lol Great article ladies xx

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/ben-needhams-grandad-did-work-8980373SYP may have not found the digger but they have found its tracks 25 years later: Police chief Det Insp Jon Cousins said of the investigation: “We have also found marks made by the bulldozer we believe was used by Dino Barkas back in 1991.”SYP never cease to amaze in this case!

I understand that the SYP are just not clever police detectives, but apparently qualified archaeologists, but they might of course confuse the tracks of Dino's bulldozer with the imprints of ancient gladiatorial chariots. Interesting scientific research they are doing anyway.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3821135/Police-start-demolishing-farmhouse-Greece-search-Ben-Needham.htmlSeems the tracks were seen on an old photo. So maybe police didn't find any recent traces: Days after his disappearance in July 1991, a picture was taken by a British photographer which shows the left wing of the house, which now contains a bathroom and pantry, was not there.It was thanks to the picture police discovered the left section of the property was not there and could hold clues to Ben’s disappearance.The photo also showed digger tracks on the very ground where the new wing of the building now stands.

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- Maddie McCanndied in the early evening of May 3rd, 2007, in the Apartment 5A. We believe the death to have been accidental.

- At the time of Maddie's death the Praia da Luz's Ocean Club was hosting a large swinging holiday (which we believe took place in various locations in and around Praia da Luz - from Lagos to Sagres) in which the McCanns and friends were part of among many others.

- After Maddie's death a cover-up of unseen proportions and scope took place not to hide Maddie's death but with the main purpose of hiding the presence of swinging. To achieve that, Maddie's death had to be hidden.

- We don't believe there was any sort of negligence involved in the Maddie affair. We don't believe that T9 dined at Tapas Bar from Sunday to Wednesday. We think that on those nights they left their children with professional nannies - as did other guests - to go dine downtown PdL. On Thursday night they did use Tapas but that was simply part of what was to be "negligence"that was required to allow Maddie to be "abducted."

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PdL - What a place. Why does anyone holiday there?It's populated by black heroin addicts, people who rob apartments, gypsies who steal scrap and wood, scruffy moustachioed lurers of children, bogus charity collectors, suspicious street musicians, men lurking near phone booths, glasses man lurking in stairwells, blond men suspiciously lurking outside apartments, soothing couples entering apartments without permission, mysterious gangs of cleaners, men taking photographs of children on beaches... And to top it all, you have to queue for a table booking.Anonymous 11Nov 2013 12:22:00

Maybe because you can always enjoy an ice-cream in the rain?And a dip in an icy pool on arrival always attracts a crowd.Textusa 11Nov 2013 12:28:00

I like the Tapas fragile chairs and tables. They wobble nicely when cutting thick grilled steaks spilling the drinks all about! It's fun for the whole family!Anonymous 11Nov 2013 13:08:00

And how about the number of men seen carrying little blond girls in the street in the middle of the night?Anonymous 11Nov 2013 14:04:00

PdL - where families take it in turn to vomit each night, dog packs pursue and bite joggers, guests fall off catamarans, damage tendons playing tennis, have shaving accidents and stagger around apartments bleeding, domestic appliances need repair, shutters jam, baby monitors won't function at restaurants, travel cots can't be assembled.. sounds like THE VILLAGE OF THE DAMNED.Anonymous 12 Nov 2013 12:37:00

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PJ's Declaration for Reopening Process:

"Madeleine McCann

As is the case with any situation in which a child goes missing, notwithstanding formal dismissal of the inquiry into her disappearance, and just as has always been publicly stated, the Polícia Judiciária never stopped paying close attention to any and all information that might possibly shed light on the whereabouts of the minor Madeleine McCann, the circumstances surrounding her disappearance and the identity of the perpetrator(s).

It was with this goal in mind that in March 2011 the National Director of the Polícia Judiciária entrusted a team of investigators from the North Directorate with the mission of reassessing, as a whole, the vast amount of information gathered during the inquiry, aimed at identifying data for which a more in-depth investigation might be useful and possible.

The reassessment which took place over the last two years and a half suggested new evidence to have surfaced, which, requiring the investigation to proceed, meets the requirements set out by section 279(1) of the Portuguese Code of Criminal Procedure for reopening of the inquiry.

Accordingly, a request for reopening was made to the Public Prosecutor for the jurisdiction of Portimao, and approval granted by the latter. "

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"This says it all, Ms Loach hit the nail on the head!

"Ms Loach replied: “Imagine the public believing that you covered up your child’s death and then sought to make money out of it. They feel shame, humiliation and anguish."

Yes, that's exactly what we, the public, believe, because that's exactly what they did! And, their "shame, humiliation and anguish" are because they know we know!"

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Hey textusa How are you? well I hope,just thought I would tell you that there are videos about you on youtube, claiming you are an internet predator who stole her daughters identity and prowls the forums for young boys, they say you are welsh!! I think its a case of mistaken identity because are you not portuguese and male? Anyway great blog. keep it up.(Anon., Nov 13th, 05:43)

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“He/she/it invented a barking mad 'theory' about no-one actually having eaten in the Tapas, because he/she/it couldn't grasp the table arrangements.”

So, because textusa doesn't understand stuff like that, all the Tapas group, the staff, everyone, were lying.

OMG - you don't suppose textusa is actually Gonc, do you?”

sansouci:“Could be Bonny.

The 'theories' about the table and the watersports are really so far beyond bizarre, that I get the feeling that 'textusa' could actually be 'pisstaka'.”

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“…How would any of you idiots like it if your name came into the public domain because you were witness to a crime, and some mad bitch set up a site in which she called you a liar, and claimed you were actually involved in the crime you witnessed? Just ponder on that for a moment”

Aug 28, 2011 9:27:00 AM

“…Where is your sense of shame or decency in accusing innocent witnesses of being involved in covering up the death of a child?

I see no shame or decency on here - just an utter indifference to the rights or feelings of others.

I notice no-one had the balls to answer my question about how you would feel if this was done to you - if you were a witness to a crime and some deranged cow on the internet accused you of being involved. You are all a complete disgrace.”

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Insane (Nov 14, 2012 11:37:00 PM):

Oh look here - amazing what one can find out by means of a couple of emails to Mark Warner.

You are toast, lady. Finished.

I am going to enjoy this more than is actually decent.

Textusa (Nov 15, 2012 8:50:00 AM):

Well it seems that you're quite privy with the Ocean Club aren't you?

Them giving YOU the information about their own mails?

And you threatening us based on information that YOU apparently got from the Ocean Club.

That's really interesting, isn't it?

Insane (Nov 15, 2012 10:47:00 PM):

One thing I really like about Mark Warner is how helpful their staff are. Really go the extra mile for someone needing information. IYKWIM

:)

Textusa (Nov 16, 2012 11:17:00 AM):

Thank you for confirming that Mark Warner Staff are supplying YOU with information pertaining the Maddie Affair.

Insane's Moment of Rare Beauty

“It would be more suspicious if every account tallied. Police expect to find contradictions, don't tell me you did not know this?” (Nov 22, 2012 3:38:00 PM), when providing an opinion on contradictions from various statements in the PJ Files.

“I don't give a rat's arse about the statements which tally too closely - of course some of them tally too closely, there is an in depth analysis of them on my blog, the one you are not invited to.” (Nov 22, 2012 4:08:00 PM), when, exactly 30 minutes later, provides an opposite opinion, in this case about the fact that some of Tapas' Staff's statements tally too closely.

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We waited so long for the link...

A possible explanation for the wait: "As I have made perfectly clear, you and your sort will never have access to my blog. We are particular about who we invite, and would not include screaming harpies and riff-faff like yourself."unpublished comment from Insane at Nov 23, 2012 10:55:00 AM

Then, a glimmer of hope?“Publishing elsewhere the posts Textusa refuses to publish is also appropriate - and also gives you fools a chance to read what she withholds from you, knowing that you would desert her if you were aware of how much trouble she leads you into.” (Nov 29, 2012 12:40:00 PM)

No, it wasn’t to be so… :“For the last time, you will never be provided with a link for my blog - you are not welcome there and will never be given access”(Nov 29, 2012 1:38:00 PM)